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Storage Protect Family

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TSM FOR VE: Specify management class for vm full backups

When you run the recommended backup strategy IFINCR for VM backups, then the first backup is an IFFULL backup.In our strategy, we place the IFFULL-Backup in an other storage pool which is later migrated to tape.The following IFINCR-Backups are pla...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

dsmc hang when NFS hard mount is fail

i want that the dsmc or dsmc sched dont hang on a failed NFS Mount.Ther should be a timout and than go on with backup.ther can be a message in errorlog.But i dont want to hang the dsmc
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM BA Client backup the local file spaces in sequencially order, starting from C: to X:. need random order

As it is today the TSM BA Client backup the local file spaces in sequencially order, starting from C: to X:. I want to have an random order or some intelligence, that the TSM code should start to backup the file spaces with oldest successfully bac...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Analytics on error logs for faster resolution times

Analytics on error logs for faster resolution times
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

All-in-one TSM backup appliance

TSM virtual appliance (VA) consisting of TSM server, TSM-VE and TSM Ops Center components, with support for using TSM VA with tape as a supported product in a customer production environment, also with the possibility to pair the appliance with an...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TDP for SQL - password exposed in task list

Product: TDP for SQL Description: During query, backup or restore operations, the admin password for accessing TDP for SQL GUI is exposed by hovering over the task list. Please see the attached image.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to throttle backup client resource utilization.

Possibility to throttle backup client resource utilization. Many times there are resource conflict for backups that are running “overtime”. The backup has been/is running until outside backup window. And the user, application owner want to cancel/...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

VM Quiescing

VM Quiescing
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM fo VE / More fine granular user priviliges for Web GUI

Currently, the vSphere access permissions for any vSphere user that wants to use TDP for VMware GUI must be defined on datacenter level. That means, every user always sees everything and ALL VMs under the specified datacenter. He can do backup and...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Ability to lock/unlock a node in TSM Operations Center GUI

To make Operations Center GUI more useful for this account, we need to have the ability to lock/unlock client nodes from the interface, so that the person using the GUI for monitoring does not have to resort to running the commands at the command ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration